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Fast Company March 1, 2007 Andrew Park	The View from Florida-Ville What happens when every city in America craves the "creative class?" The escalating race to attract a creative class has birthed a cottage industry of consultants charging six-figure sums to assess a city's potential.
Reason March 2007 Brian Doherty	Bowling Together Sprawl and social virtue -- is time spent commuting injuring civic life in the U.S.? Probably not, according to two Harvard economists.
Reason March 2007 Katherine Mangu-Ward	iWorld Why the iPod personalizes everything -- it's the freedom to be deaf to the loudspeakers of history. But is something lost then? A common cultural reference point?
Scientific American March 2007 Steve Mirsky	Tough to Swallow Although the medical literature has, until now, featured only scattered case reports of sword swallowing-related injury, sword swallowers in fact played an important role in medical history.
Reason February 2007 Kerry Howley	Soundbite: In Search of the Average American Sarah Igo, author of The Averaged American and assistant professor of history, tells the story of how surveys and polls have contributed to a sometimes distorted, always controversial conception of the archetypical American.
Reason February 2007 Cathy Young	The Fan Fiction Phenomena Is the growth of Internet-based fan fiction a cultural development to be wholeheartedly applauded? Not quite.
Reason February 2007 Charles Paul Freund	The Politics of Pants It was consumers, not marketers, that made jeans a symbol of youthful revolt.
Smithsonian February 2007 Whitney Dangerfield	Family Ties African Americans use scientific advances to trace their roots.
ifeminists February 7, 2007 Wendy McElroy	Culture Connection: Your New Muslim Neighbors The assimilation of North America's Muslim population will involve wrestling with some odd questions. The answers may well be foreshadowed by two recent events in Canada, which represent polar opposite reactions.
Geotimes February 2007 Katherine Unger	Climate to Blame in Cultural Collapses The Anasazi people in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest disappeared suddenly, possibly due to climate change that made food and water sources scarce. Researchers are now linking several past periods of climate change with failed civilizations.
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